Talk:Foundations of Modern Arab Identity

Biographical information
As I mentioned in the AfD, information that cannot be verified in reliable sources, independent of Prof. Sheehi and of his affiliations, should be removed. This has nothing to do with notability, it just has to do with reliability and the need for a neutral description of these details. Of course there is nothing wrong with linking to Prof. Sheehi's homepage/s in the External links section. (For now I'm going to delay proposing the renaming I suggested in the AfD.) Pan Dan 22:47, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Bio info and Move
No one has added reliable sources, independent of Sheehi and of his affiliations, to verify the bio details, and I can find none on Google. So I think we should refactor this article to be about the book (Foundations) that has actually received independent coverage, instead of being about Prof. Sheehi himself who, apparently, has not. Propose to remove the bio content as above, and rename the page as Foundations of Modern Arab Identity. Pan Dan 14:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I think this was a good move. The page is more refined and offers researchers a tool for further study. --JJ 01:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)Jaxon

MOS:PEACOCK tag in Summary section
I tagged the summary section (which I created by copy-pasting from the lede) for MOS:PEACOCK because it includes puffery throughout, for example, describing it as a "cornerstone for Nahdah Studies", "closely read[ing] 'foundational' Arabic texts", and "reveal[ing] that a 'spectral European presence' is ever present in Arab modernity and its paradigms of Arab identity". Those things might very well be true in "Nahdah Studies" (a field which is undefined in the summary), but. I don't have time to read this book, but I would propose replacing the section with a summary of the arguments in the text. Then, the critical reception section could be modified to include reviews from other scholars, and an Analysis section could include criticism or further research (see WP:NONFICTION). voorts (talk/contributions) 23:37, 29 April 2023 (UTC)